Institute of History
Services:
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archiving, compiling, organising and inventorising of documents, as well as digitizing of various types of materials, such as files, photographic documentation (slides, negatives, photographs), sounds (reel-to-reel tapes and cassette tapes).
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consultancy on the design of archives and archival standards. Expert opinions on projects of norms for archives.
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genealogical research in the records collected in church and state archives aiming at individuals, family relationships and filiation. Reconstruction of family tree and creation of ancestral database on demand of individuals, especially descendants of emigrants searching for their roots. Professional archive research, e.g. for verification of property claims, and other legal purposes.
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consultancy on sigillography, numismatics, medallic art, vexillology, phaleristics and emblematics. Designing heraldic signs on demand of individuals and institutions.
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designing databases providing information on demography of an area over time, preparation of websites and internet applications using historical-geographical data, spatial and demographic inventories, description of metadata concerning archival and library collections (from geographic and historical perspective).
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consultancy on the organisation of exhibitions, production of historical films, radio plays etc.
- workshops and courses on use of digital tools recommended for historical and archival research entry course, geography, historical statistics and demography course, genealogy and heraldry, editorial work, archive science and documentation management.